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Bootradr

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

This is an excellent/superb REO Speedwagon recording from a show on their 1983 tour while in Milwaukee. I want to try and get a few Gary Richrath shows up over the next few weeks in memory of his passing away. He led REO Speedwagon on a rock 'n' roll ride for many years up through 1989 when he was let go. And on September 13th, 2015 he passed away at the age of 65.

NOTES:(1) "Bobobo" removed all commercials that were on the LP's and left the Supergroups intro/outtro tracks at the beginning and end of the LP's.

(2) I did not EQ the audio in this project. The left channel was clipped very badly and the right channel had some light clipping. So I only made repairs and fixed the audio clipping and balanced the audio channels before normalizing.

As I mentioned the other day in a post, Gary Richrath was not happy with
the way REO Speedwagon's music was changing after their album Hi Infidelity
(which was the band's catapult from a known band to a superstar status
band). And this 1983 show being shared now is a good example of what
Richrath was not happy with. Even though the classics are still in the show, the new songs many people today still don't know like "Let's BeBop" were being brought in by Kevin Cronin in an attempt to take the band towards the newer 1980's pop and ballads sound. And Gary did not like this at all.

I really side with Gary Richrath on his dislike of many of the songs REO started putting out after they became a household name. I liked a lot of them, but some I could not stand and I wondered "what are they trying to do...kill their momentum" back in the days.

Today, I have more appreciation for the songs Kevin was trying to bring into the band in their mid through late 1980's era. But they still do not compare in most cases to the earlier rock songs the band had been playing and performing live for over a decade in my opinion either. And the band's album sales also supported Richrath's dislike of the new "trendy" sounding songs too.

REO Speedwagon soon found a balance of both the classic rock tunes as well as the new ones they were bringing into the band. But Gary was too far gone by this point and he left REO Speedwagon never to return as a member again. Ironically; the songs that get the most play today by REO Speedwagon in their r live shows and on the radio too are the songs Gary Richrath played on (and many he wrote) and helped cement the sound of when he was with the band for two decades.

This is an excellent-to-superb transfer of the pre-FM LP's via a USB turntable (all digital) and there are very, very few indications of "snap, crackle, or pop" in the recording. When pops or crackling is seldom heard it's between songs in the quiet parts of the LP. This LP has been taken care of very well it sounds like.

A special thanks goes to "bobobo" for sharing this excellent LP rip and work. He's done some superb digital transfers from the original Pre-FM LP's of many REO Speedwagon shows and he has shared each one too. I really appreciate his help and the work he has done. Thanks for the help you've been to me specifically "bobobo" in not only information on REO Speedwagon recordings but in other details too in their shows over the last couple of years!I hope you enjoy the show...Bootradr

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